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zaphod
from the metaverse on 2003-05-28 19:18 [#00718813]
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watched this movie for the first time in god knows how long. it seems to have aged well. any thoughts, or has this one been discussed to death?
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corrupted-girl
on 2003-05-28 19:19 [#00718818]
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I loved that movie. Love Edward Norton...
Have you read the book?
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zaphod
from the metaverse on 2003-05-28 19:19 [#00718820]
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i watched it with the commentary with ed norton, brad pitt and david fincher on, so that gave some nice insight into the movie. too bad they couldn't get radiohead to do the soundtrack like they had wanted to.
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zaphod
from the metaverse on 2003-05-28 19:20 [#00718821]
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i read the book before the movie came out.
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corrupted-girl
on 2003-05-28 19:21 [#00718824]
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oh I see.
I have the DVD but I haven't watched it with the cmmentary.. maybe I will.
Radiohead? That would of been pretty fresh.
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zaphod
from the metaverse on 2003-05-28 19:21 [#00718826]
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i actually think the book is better than the movie, but the rest of his books haven't really lived up to the standard set by that one. they all seem to repeat the same basic tone, themes expressed in that one.
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2003-05-28 19:22 [#00718829]
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love the film.
nice dvd package. the commentary is nice.
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corrupted-girl
on 2003-05-28 19:22 [#00718833]
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Books usually are better than movies.. imagination always seems to be more powerrful and more to my liking.
I haven't read any of his books.
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aquagak
from Berlin (Germany) on 2003-05-28 19:23 [#00718837]
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yeah iv got the dvd but only watched half of it with the comentary thanks zaphod you reminded me
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Quatch
from ROFLOMGOMGOMG on 2003-05-28 19:39 [#00718891]
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one of the best movies of its 3 year period
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Amnesiac
from ERIE (United States) on 2003-05-28 19:40 [#00718894]
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I'm reading "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk currently. It's really good.
I read "Survivor" (i posted about it a while back) by him as well, it was amazing.
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titsworth
from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-05-28 19:40 [#00718895]
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trivia: radiohead were nearly involved in this as composers
i forget if trent was offered the job too. the dust bros score is excellent :}
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2003-05-28 19:40 [#00718896]
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I have "lullaby" lying around.
still have to start reading it though.
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flim nanou
from out of the frying pan (United States) on 2003-05-28 19:47 [#00718909]
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palahniuk is the living end fight club is a sick fucking book, everyone who likes apocalyptic satire will dig it
but I think lullaby is even better. I also liked choke a lot. it's a quick read and quite wonderfully vulgar I think
he's kind of a brett easton ellis for juniors
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child810
from boston (United States) on 2003-05-28 20:21 [#00718968]
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Surivivor is my favorite, Invisible Monsters is pretty disturbing as well.
Fight Club is a great DVD, don't even know how many times I've seen it. Too many.
Chuck has a new book coming out ! Fugitives & Refugees - July 8th, 2003! A Walk in Portland Oregon
(Taken from someone who listened to Chuck read some of the book) With a small crowd I had the lucky opportunity to hear Chuck read from Fugitives and Refugees this past October 2002 in New York. He read about 3-5 chapters from the book, each comprised as a separate mock-postcard written from Chuck to the people he knows living outside his hometown of Portland, OR. From the moment Chuck began reading his first selection about his experiences at a Pink Floyd laser light show on acid, the entire crowd was hysterically laughing. But the level of laughter far outdid any response I've ever heard Choke, Lullaby, or even the felching scene from Invisible Monsters get.
But Fugitives and Refugees is not only a laugh riot of embarrassing and revealing moments in Chuck's life, it's at the same time very autobiographical.
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corrupted-girl
on 2003-05-28 20:24 [#00718972]
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I think im gonna check some of his books out now... :)
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Asche XL
on 2003-05-28 20:57 [#00719010]
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Excellent movie, I am also in the process of reading "Choke"
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earthleakage
from tell the world you're winning on 2003-05-28 21:16 [#00719024]
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walking into the cinema arsehole coming out shouts "its his alter ego!" police arrive i get charged for assault
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pachi
from yo momma (United States) on 2003-05-28 21:41 [#00719033]
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i saw it a year ago & i didn't quite catch it. i think i need to watch it again to catch it, cuz i only saw it once.
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corticalstim
from Canada on 2003-05-28 21:49 [#00719039]
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/me fights
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bjg
from Adelaide (Australia) on 2003-05-28 22:02 [#00719041]
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Edward Norton is cool. If it wasn't for him the movie would be shit.
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od_step_cloak
from Pleth (Australia) on 2003-05-28 22:06 [#00719044]
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The book is so short!
Yeah I've read/seen both.
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CORTEX
from Canada on 2003-05-28 22:08 [#00719047]
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fight club was an uppercut right on the jaw. i watched that movie many times.
i read survivor soon after and really liked it, heard a while ago they were supposed to make a movie out of it.
bought choke, it's a good read, but it's true that the mood and everything gets repeated, the main characters are too alike in his books.
i got lullaby, but i have yet to read it.
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mimi
on 2003-05-28 23:09 [#00719091]
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yeah, have you seen him in everyone says i love you? his performance is breathtaking.
haha....anyhow, he has been in his fair share of classics -- the people vs larry flynt, american history x (funniest movie ever)...
glad the dust brothers did the soundtrack; couldn't imagine it any other way.
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od_step_cloak
from Pleth (Australia) on 2003-05-29 02:03 [#00719159]
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Cortex - Hey I read survivor too!
Have you noticed how much SHIT Chuck Pahlaniuk knows?
"The best way to get semen out of trousers is to use a lemon and soap mixture - 1 part soap 4 parts lemon" (that's not an example but that kind of shit - that and the whole making bombs with soap thing)
Fucking crazy-smart bastard!
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bill_hicks
from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-05-29 02:12 [#00719169]
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I've got a feeling that ed norton might be a buffty boy.
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Jarworski
from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-29 02:22 [#00719171]
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The fact that he's engaged to Salma Hayek might be enough to prove you wrong, william.
I dig chuck's stuff, do a search on his name there's plenty of threads bout him.
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bill_hicks
from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-05-29 02:25 [#00719173]
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That proves nothing. He's as camp as fucking Kevin Spacey.
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WeaklingChild
from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-29 02:40 [#00719187]
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ed norton's not a buftie....surley?
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od_step_cloak
from Pleth (Australia) on 2003-05-29 02:49 [#00719195]
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Jenna Jameson wants to root Edward Norton.
No shit I saw her say it on some porno interview thing on TV. Crazy shit.
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2003-05-29 03:50 [#00719244]
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http://fightclub.lycos.co.uk
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blrr
from the block on 2003-05-29 03:55 [#00719247]
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why don't we start a fight club.
i had a fight with my friend on the way home from the pub last weekend.
good fun.
for a while.
anyone interested?
(no slapping)
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giginger
from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-29 04:53 [#00719280]
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Great film.
Even better book.
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Key_Secret
from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-05-29 10:49 [#00719684]
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(Books usually are better than movies.. ) imagination always seems to be more powerrful and more to my liking.
Your post makes me think of reasons not to watch porn...
Anyway yeah the book is better than the film, but not much. The film is great, even a great adaption of the book...
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CORTEX
from Canada on 2003-05-29 12:48 [#00719781]
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i know, i was thinking the same thing while reading survivor. or all those stealing techniques!
but i know he does a shitload of research for every book he writes.
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Key_Secret
from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-05-29 14:14 [#00719861]
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yeah. Most good authours (that write in the same way, with details) do a lot of resarch though...
I read some interview where he said that he began writing on this book after working with [addicts or old people or something] which he took to support groups.
He then was amazed (or something) by the openes that people had to eachother at supportgroups and thought like "what if somebody's faking it"...
Also back then there were several (fiction) books he'd read that had real (food) recipes in them (these books weren't about food really).
And he thought it would be fun to do the same stuff (putting real fact/info into his books) but with bombs and such stuff...
I watched the movie like 5 times last autumn cause I (and some classmates) analyzed it for a class we had at the university... It got better every time we saw it... Fincher knows how to add qualitytime to a film =)
Nearly any (can't think of any now anyway) unnecesseary stuff, and it's nice to look at, has excellent sound and great music...
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evolume
from seattle (United States) on 2003-05-29 16:13 [#00720056]
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yeah, this DVD has one of the best commentarys i have heard. which sounds like a great idea for a new topic...
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Key_Secret
from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-05-29 18:41 [#00720231]
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haha... that's kinda funny.. I liked the commentary to, but my classmates were so angry cause they wanted Fincher to analyze the movie (there were certain scenes we disagreed on what they actually meant, like how he had used symbolism -etc) on the commentary track, which he obviously didn't.
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aron
from saskatoon (Canada) on 2003-05-29 20:23 [#00720378]
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the commentary with norton, pitt and fincher was indeed very good
one of my favorite movies have yet to read the book
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Dael
from the low end (Australia) on 2003-06-28 00:07 [#00760328]
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such a great film for me,
I really enjoyed all the discussion about the modern day male...
...we are not our avatars or points...
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nlogax
from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2003-06-28 03:36 [#00760448]
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this movie is a masterpiece. The dialogues, and the monologues are extremely well articulated. Edward Norton is a great "monologuist", and his effort in this film is beyond anything I've ever seen. He's a fucking natural.
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DJ Xammax
from not America on 2003-06-28 03:44 [#00760451]
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Loved it.
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Anus_Presley
on 2003-06-28 05:36 [#00760529]
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grreat film and it's a lasterr. it does not depend on the twist to make it a good film.
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MachineofGod
from the land of halo's (United States) on 2003-06-28 09:12 [#00760669]
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invisible monsters is a bery good book and ive been meaning to pick up the rest of his books but havent gotten around to doing it, aside from that biography hes writing i think 1 or possibly 2 more books (1 of which i think will be out by the fall this year)
the movie was very good indeed, i kind of didnt want to see it because i hadnt read the book yet but I think itll work out fine.
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